Brainspotting

Brainspotting is a body-based modality for healing trauma and regulating the nervous system. Brainspotting locates points in a client’s visual field that help access unprocessed trauma in the subcortical brain. The subcortical brain is the most primitive part of the brain and what lights up on a brain scan when the body detects a threat and goes into a stress response of fight, flight, freeze, or fawn. Brainspotting helps you experience prfound healing on a neurobiological level.

Brainspotting is a treatment approach which helps by identifying, processing, and releasing stored negative or traumatic experiences from the brain to help affected individuals heal from within. BSP is based on the idea that where you look affects how you feel. . I have found Brainspotting to be one of the most effective tools in healing anxiety, depression and trauma. (really any issue you face!) I have seen amazing progress in clients in a shorter amount of time vs. regular talk therapy.

Brainspotting is a somatic approach to healing from trauma. It is based on the same principles as EMDR and incorporates ideas from somatic experiencing. The goal of this process is to access the subcortical parts of your brain, which are connected to functions of memory, emotion, and pleasure. By tapping into these parts within an attuned relationship, we create space for your mind and body to process traumatic experiences and other blocks. We move at your pace and comfort level.

I am a Certified Brainspotting Therapist. Brainspotting is a brain-based, highly effective tool for processing and relieving trauma and other persistent negative emotional states.

Brainspotting is mind/body approach that can help you connect deeply with the root of where issues are stored in your brain, body and nervous system. It helps you clear issues, ranging from difficult trauma to everyday challenges. It is also very helpful in building positives, such as confidence, relaxation optimal performance, etc. Here are links to videos "Who does Brainspotting work with?” https://vimeo.com/187492731 "Brainspotting" https://youtu.be/lm3Plvaf3

I have completed Phase 1 and 2 of Brainspotting training and use this within session as clients desire. This approach focuses on the connection between the body and brain and strives to quickly reduce activation and increase emotional regulation. This approach is helpful for reducing symptoms related to trauma, anxiety, depression, substance abuse, and chronic pain and chronic fatigue.

During a brainspotting session, a trained therapist guides the client's attention to locate the brainspots related to their distress or trauma. These brainspots are typically identified through eye positions that correlate with the activation of emotional and somatic experiences. The therapist helps the client maintain their gaze on the identified brainspot while supporting them in exploring the associated thoughts, feelings, and bodily sensations.

My expertise in Brainspotting comes from extensive training and a deep understanding of its principles, focusing on the mind-body connection to address trauma. This approach allows me to help clients access and process unresolved issues, facilitating profound healing. By utilizing Brainspotting, I guide individuals through their healing journey, addressing emotional and psychological challenges at their core, promoting resilience, and fostering a powerful path to recovery and wellness.

One of the newest therapeutic techniques, Brainspotting can help process trauma and other issues using you eyes to focus outwardly while the brain heals inwardly. As a certified Brainspotting practitioner, I will use this technique in areas where words may not bring healing or understanding.

"Where you look affects how you feel." Brainspotting is a therapeutic approach that targets trauma and distress by focusing on eye positions that activate specific areas of the brain. It accesses the body's natural ability to heal by facilitating the processing and release of traumatic experiences stored in the subconscious, leading to profound emotional healing and resolution.

I have Levels 1 & 2 training to help with somatic movement of stored trauma in the body.

For training, I've completed Brainspotting levels 1 and 2. I am currently currently training in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR).

This unique approach helps you release the psychological blocks that keep you from being your most connected, creative, actualized self. You may have heard “eyes are windows to the soul” before. As it turns out, there’s medical research that proves that this old phrase is true. As the creator of this Brainspotting, Dr. David Grand, says, “where you look affects how you feel.” Brainspotting helps track points in your visual field that reveal unprocessed trauma in the brain.

Brainspotting (BSP) is a therapeutic strategy that can help provide opportunities for profound healing of trauma & stuck emotional states. It can also help with gaining clarity and resolving creative blocks. Using focused mindfulness to facilitate processing is achieved by the tenant of BSP that 'where we look impacts how we feel'. I am currently pursuing certification in BSP and have found my experiences in receiving BSP to be incredibly healing.

Brainspotting (BSP) is a profound therapeutic tool that can help provide opportunities for healing of trauma & stuck emotional states. It can also help with gaining clarity and resolving creative blocks. Using focused mindfulness to facilitate processing is achieved by the tenant of BSP that 'where we look impacts how we feel'.

This is a rapid, effective trauma therapy that gets to the root of the issue, helps you find your own wisdom and ultimately shows you that you can approach the thing you fear and come out the other side. This approach has not only transformed my practice, but the lives of those who try it. It may seem odd, but if you're up for something a little different than talk-therapy, you will see what hope and freedom and look like.

Brainspotting is a powerful, focused treatment method that works by identifying, processing and releasing core neurophysiological sources of emotional/body pain, trauma, disassociation and a variety of other challenging symptoms. Brainspotting works with the deep brain and the body through it direct access to the autonomic and limbic systems within the body’s central nervous system.

I began training and certification in Brainspotting in 2020. This modality is in the same family as EMDR, using bilateral stimulation and eye positioning to help reduce activation in our brains and bodies related to specific events or sensations. Brainspotting can also be used to enhance performance for artists and athletes.

I am trained in Phase 1 and Phase 2 of Brainspotting. I consult and practice with my fellow Brainspotting therapists on a regular basis and am continually learning techniques as this field expands to treat more and more mental health issues. This is primarily a subconscious process, where we allow the brain to process in the way it wants to, rather than in the way it is being led to.

Brainspotting is a psychotherapy modality that works with the brain and body (somatic) to help you heal and recover from negative and traumatic experiences as well as bring clarity to emotional confusion and ambivalence regarding the issues in one’s life. Brainspotting engages in neurobiological and emotional processes that allows the person to access the deepest recesses of the emotional brain or limbic system where unprocessed trauma and negative experiences are stored and allows for healing.